Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-03-18
FACT AND FANCY.

"Japopicadomn is the latest name given TO
New York high society
Money is the root OF all evil Hence the
motto Root, hog, or die.
Ripe tomatoes are still being gathered In
the gardens OF Santa Cruz, Cal
1t costs Franklin parish Louisiana, 50 each
a month to support its paupers.
An octopus nine feet long was captured
few DAYS ago near Coquilla, Cal
Eastern capitalists paid sl,Ooo,Ooo few
DAYS ago for a mine at Austin New
Earnest Word was the name OF member OF
he Georgia legislature who lately died.
G. Joslin, aged 60 years, is being tired at
South Grmsby, Canada, on charge oil rap
ing 13-year old girl.
The people OF Arizona are collecting pop |
ular subscription to purchase gold mounted
sword for Gen. Miles.
The crocers OF Winnipeg, Manitoba, are
making a vigorous fight for the suppression OF
hawkers and peddlers
There is talk OF connecting the United
States and Mexico by building bridge over
the Rio Grande at Laredo
A rich Partisan who died few weeks ago
ton Of Cruelty to Animals.
A corps OF surveyors is at work establishing
the boundary line between Yucatan, Mexico
and Belize, "A British possession.
In the grave OF one of the ancient Indian
chiefs AT Oaxaca, Mexico recently opened, an
idol Of pure gold was discovered
Miss Elizabeth Ballart, Christian girl, re-
Gently Joined the Jewish church in New \ ork
city in order to marry her Hebrew lover
While the price Of coal is rising there is
some small comfort in the promise That there
WILDE an abundance Of ice next summer.
The mercury in Dakota last week reached
sixty degrees below zero. Dakota douotIess
wants To come into the Union in order to get
warm.
4 Young man drinking too much need not
be warned TO remember his head in the morn
inc. His head viii be SO big that he Will not
forget it.
A negro stole a bible in Baltimore, Md, and
payncd il for II cents, with which he bought
three glasses Of beer lie is now in jail Tor
six months.
The present style OF cat devotes so much
time TO sleep and counting that the croPof
rats in this country has increased % per cent
in ten years.
An old Maine lobsterman estimates the
number of Holsters caught on that coast the
past year at %, 100000, the smallest catch Tor
twenty years.
The new courthouse at Los Angeles, Cal,
IL "a be located on high hill near the center
Of the city, and it will be an imposing ed'ilce'
1t will cost s3jO,0Oo
The Freemasons Of Maine propose to have
banquet on the Goth of March next To cele-
brate the l25th anniversary OF the Introduction
Of Masonry in that state.
sOh. dear. I wish something wouii hap
nepv is what the girl said TO the fellow who
called upon her for three years without pro
nosing. He took the hint and didn't 60 there
again.
In the county clerks Office at San Francisco
Cal, Is posted up the following notice; Lady
applicants for positions will please weep IN inc
ante room. as the clerk suffers greatly from
damp feet
resident of Palatka, Fla, has invented
= seying-machne that promises 70 DO srea'
things. The attachment consists OF NUMBER
~ wires so arranged that scraps oil cloth are
.ewed ON base in a substantial manner, anC
rugs. trimmings, lambrequlns, etc, can D'
made very rayidly.
In the new army and navy hospital, recent
ly opened at Hot Springs, Ark, are accomn'
, dations for eighteen officers and sixty-iou
enlisted men. The room Is divided between
, applicants from the naval and military ser
vice and the marine corps, and can DC IL
creased when necessary.
o What the BeecherT ilton trial did for Broob
lvn. New York. aud Tillictudum, the Lor
Colin Campbell case has done for Londor
: LIVERPOOL. Edinburg Dublin, "and the part
adjacent" as the lawyers say when they Sc
an eight by ten barn with an attachmen
consisting OF two piggeries and cow-she'
- Publicity leads TO prudence while darKne
/ Is always provocative OF crime Inc nor
streets are deprived OF electric lights u
greater becomes the supply OF imprope
g houses occupied by improper women II
more publicity you give to the doings oil 10"
y Boards the greater will be their supply OF II
y tegrity and good sense.
lie The Philadelphia Bookseller says Lin
le leather binding is used largely in devotion
books. closing tightly and shutting them in
If slipped into leather bag. Ii Is looked
ON as new device, when In fact 1t is arcllc
III the parchment age. The parchment ro
Or were put in covering, drawn Ike purs
a. string, carried by the owner or attached TO
~ girdle. 1t was the book bag somctim
:, seen In the old cuts, held by the string, as I
:. deyout owner pursued her way to public W.
ship.
Men and women are inclined to evil
,o sparks ny upward Rakes and wantons IA
'' TO their neighbor's wives and husbands
he good soon learn to become bad, the bad "or'
L Lady Campbell, Capt. Shaw and the Duke
Id Marlboro will give momentum to an immor
all ity which will make the good men OF I
\, future weep for Rachael aud her children
"' London and her female women, her Dukesw
M nlght.keys, and her knights keyed TO the 81
restions OF laoivious lutes aud all that sort
thing.
d. Seal-hshing is in decline in Newfoundla
II. Owing 10 the adaptation OF petroleum to u
for which seal-oil has hitherto been consdc'
0' indispensable, the price OF that article
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